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thistleandphlox

East Midlands Floral Designer
💐Weddings, Events, Funerals and Seasonal Workshops
🌷Starting on my journey of growing my own British blooms

My love 💕
These featured in last weeks wedding

My love 💕
These featured in last weeks wedding and as usual changed how they looked every day from me collecting them. The joy of fresh flowers.
On the list this week: get vaccinated ☑️ plant up the allotment ▪️final consultations ▪️ training ▪️wedding season prep ▪️admin ▪️
Wish me luck and have a great week!

Here’s the garden gathered last June.
Ahead of

Here’s the garden gathered last June.
Ahead of my first wedding of 2021 (the first in 6 months!) I’m thinking about what I learnt from 2020 and there’s a few things really. First being flowers make people smile in the hardest of times. I delivered more bouquets through lockdowns than I ever planned to and loved to see the surprised looks when the doors opened. ‘For who, me?’
Also the importance of weddings not only to individuals but the industry and country. Everything crossed for 21st June.
Finally, even with an allotment, I’d have to grow far far more than I do and spend much more time on it if I were to make more of these #grownnotflown bouquets. I’m working on it!

Weddings. They’re my bread and butter (except 20

Weddings. They’re my bread and butter (except 2020 of course) and my first one this year is next week. To be honest after all this time I’m pretty nervous. It’s all I can think about! Hoping I get back into the swing of it as the next few months are busy busy. I’m really excited at the same time though!
Here’s Kelly and her bridesmaids a few years ago, a wonderful wedding 💙💙 📷 by @paul_heathcote

Florists snacks. I don’t snack much whilst worki

Florists snacks. I don’t snack much whilst working long days making wedding flowers but we do have a few regular occurrences. Often a hot chocolate on the way back from the flower market or a takeaway in the evening for ease. Ice creams are a must for the summer wedding season too! It’s not always easy to snack when your hands are mucky and green but don’t worry, I make up for it when I’ve washed them.
Lovely table flowers from Allanah and James’ wedding 📷 by @mattselbyphotography

Working with me. I’m lucky to have a great famil

Working with me. I’m lucky to have a great family who work with me on the set up of weddings. I do pretty much all the flowering myself but have been known to draw in help in the early hours to wire a few buttonholes! For now I take on such a limited number of weddings so that I can fully plan, prep and execute them myself. But I am looking forward to the time I can get some amazing freelancers in. The help I require at the moment is mostly labour and tidying up after the trail of mess I leave 😬

Colour. Colour is one of the first things couples

Colour. Colour is one of the first things couples tell me about when we chat about flowers. It is so important but I do like to try and focus on style, shape and size too.
I love the uniformed insta accounts with colour schemes but I like to play too much with colour, trying new combinations and making the flowers unique to you.
Finally, photography style and lighting (let’s not even talk about filters) can make the same flowers looks sooo different. Swipe across to see the same bouquet Beth is holding. Did you expect it to look so different?

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